[79] Χύτρας τε ἀλλ’ οὗς ἀσβέστου πλήρης κ.τ.λ. “Tactics,” xix., § 54, in Meursii Op., vi.
[80] Recipe 24 (see Chapter iv.).
[81] Nürnberg MS., in Romocki, i. 125, recipe, “ignis qui in pluvia.”
[82] Generally ascribed to Albert Groot, but much more probably by one of his pupils. Berthelot, i. 91.
[83] Romocki, i. 154.
[84] Ib., 130.
[85] Cedrenus seems to convey that the manufacture of incendiaries was the privilege of the Lampros family, but it was presumably carried on in some Government establishment (ἐκ τούτου κατάγεται ἡ γενεὰ τοῦ Λαμπροῦ, τοῦ νυνὶ τὸ πῦρ ἐντέχνως κατασκευάζοντος); ed. Bekker, Bonn, 1838, i. 765.
[86] Herr von Romocki was, I believe, the first to offer this explanation.
[87] See p. 13, and Table II., col. Liber Ignium.
[88] Dr. Bury in Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall,” &c., vii. 540.